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The 'Middle Earth Roleplaying Project' aims to recreate J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth in the Creation engine of 'Skyrim'. The player will be plunged into Middle Earth near the end of the Third Age, not long before the War of the Ring breaks out.

We now need out fans and supporters to send this letter to everyone and anyone on the internet. Be it youtube channels, journalism sites or just friends and folowers. We need to spread the word and get ourselves noticed.

Someone wrote:Dear [recipient],

I would like to inform you of a Lord of the Rings fan modification of the Elder Scrolls Skyrim, which has recently been issued a cease and desist letter from Warner Brothers Entertainment. The mod's name is MERP (Middle earth Roleplaying Project), which has been in development since before 2008 (though then for a different game). Since then, the team has matured and the mod has seen a huge boost in quality, fan support and developemnt experience.

Now we need all the support we can get from fans, other modders, game websites, famous people and whoever can help to spread news about our current situation to show Warner Bros. how much everyone cares about our project.

After contact with Warner Brothers, they did not permit us to continue the project privately with no public releases. We have contact with a lawyer who is trying to argue our case as transformative and under 'fair use', but we also need all the support we can get!

Please help our cause, and spread the news and don't let this awesome non-profit project come to an end!

its funny, cause even if that petition gets millions of signatures, they could still just say no and it would have all been a waste of time. Maybe you should just give up, start something new, thats not lord of the rings related, besides, lord of the rings is epicly gay. just being honest, although ill have extreme negavite karma/replies but idc, its the truth, the only reason i like this is because of the giant map that seems to be really detailed, other than that, lord of the rings can kiss my ***.

If you are going to get on a mod page, especially since this is a Lord of the Rings mod for Skyrim, and talk trash about a imaginary world that is epically awesome, and lots of time and effort was put into it. BTW if you are gonna use the English language correctly, and no, I'm not a grammar nazzi.

It's not awesome, not even close. Like I said, the games map and how detailed it was is what attracted me to this mod, not the gay imaginary world its set in. I understand you've put lots of work into it, that's the only reason I support this, and the only reason id feel bad for you if they forced you to stop. And you're asking me to use the English language correctly, when you didn't even use it correctly, what an epic fail. You said if I was "going to go on a Lord of the Rings mod for Skyrim, and talk trash..." and that's it, makes no sense. Same with the last sentence, you did the exact same thing. What you should have said was if you're going to go on a Lord of the ***** mod page for Skyrim, and talk trash, then ill anally rape you, or something similar.

Not interested in books, i'm a gamer, i'm interested in games. and movies, the movies were horrible, idk about the lord of the **** games though, haven't played those too much, just have heard they suck. Point doesn't change, lord of the ***** is gay.

I know you won't reply cause you're "gay", but you are a real ******* *******. How old are you? Ten? And how did your parents raise such a little piece of ****? I want to ******* stab the mother that popped out the little **** you turned out to be. Go ******* kill yourself you waste of unintelligent flesh. And get the **** off this website, no one wants you here. Oh, and go the **** back to middle school and learn to spell.

@AudioGhostX
No, I said,
"If you are going to get on a mod page, especially since this is a Lord of the Rings mod for Skyrim..." not "going to go on a Lord of the Rings mod for Skyrim, and talk trash...", like I said learn English b4 you post.

You realize how much time and effort has gone in to this and you say "just give up"? Bit of lack of empathy on your part their... and about how good or bad Lord of the Rings is; that's not the truth, just your opinion. Your opinion doesn't make it fact, the fact that there are more than 300 million copies of Lord of the Rings sold. If something that sells on that degree is "epicly gay" (which isn't an English word). You sir. Live in some sort of alternate dimension with different definitions for the English Language.

Good stuff! ModDB SHOULD feature this in their front page rotator too. They're known to take a stand for freedom of speech. I will write them a mail or PM, and maybe more of you can do so too to get them going.

im so tired of these companies shutting down mods because their own games cant hold a candle to them.
At the momment my favorate LOTR game is a mod. The last good one they made was BFME 2 and that was bloody years ago and i only liked it because there was so much custom content that was easily accessable

cant really say im going to be boycotting them though, i never really has any intention to buy their crap

5000 votes in 4 days isnt bad though. lets hope it keeps going and they take notice and this doesnt go the way of BSG

Hold on, all you have to say is its based off the books and Warner Brothers can **** right off. Seriously, they don't hold control over the rights of the books, so unless Tolkien's publishers come after you, you're golden.

I think they (or someone) do own the rights to adapt the books. The right to publish Tolkien's works belongs to his publisher, the right to adaptations belongs, as far as I know, to Warner Bros. War in the North, for example, is partly based on material that's in the books but doesn't appear in the films.

All that said, the current crop of "official" LotR games is shockingly bad. MERP has a chance of changing that. I wonder if The Third Age (for Medieval II: Total War) is getting the same kind of legal pressure?